This week I have had the huge honour of being one of the first nurses (and indeed people) to tweet from inside one of the Health Committee meetings in Westminster Palace. I have to say that I was really quite overwhelmed by the whole experience but rather than rambling on I shall start this story…
Herding cats – Leading in a digital space
This week’s WeNurses discussion was led by @NHSLeadership so leadership has been very much on my mind this week. The leadership discussion brought together 207 people over the course of the hour, which was a record for a WeNurses discussion, and they produced a phenomenal 2 tweets per second! So it’s no wonder that WeNurses was trending on Thursday evening. This…
Evolving
Connecting nurses has been a passion of mine for a good few years now – working as an agency nurse I felt very isolated professionally for a very long time and this drives me to connect nurses and be connected myself. WeNurses currently has nearly 10,000 followers and my waking hours do not pass without…
And the grand total is …….
Every so often on Twitter a tweet gets sent out that just captures peoples imagination and gets people talking … well last night I was the author of such a tweet when I asked: Well that was it … the flood gates opened and nurses from far and wide shared their years of experience. For…
Compassionate care and the #NurseCommunity
I think care and compassion are intrinsically linked but unlike the other #6Cs this link is hard to unravel and care and compassion remain closely intertwined for many nurses – for how can we provide care without compassion and to be compassionate we need to also care. It is because of this close relationship between…
Is nursing competence evident online ?
I am now over halfway through my series of blogs about how the 6Cs are evident in our online behaviour having already explored courage, communication and commitment I want to take a little look at competence. I believe that competence is very much in the eye of the beholder and each person will measure competence differently…
Commitment, #MadeADifference and Chicken Soup
I am a great believer in the more we look for something the more we shall see it – sounds obvious doesn’t it? But what I mean is the more we make a conscious effort to look for the good and positive things and acknowledge them the more we will begin to recognise them in…
Communication, switching on and Basil Fawlty
This is my second blog in exploring how the 6Cs are evident in our online nursing activity – in the first blog last week I explored how courage is apparent in every tweeting nurse. In this weeks blog I want to explore communication… Ok so I have to admit that this one sounds obvious and…
Courage
With the launch of the 6Cs Live! Hub a few weeks ago the 6Cs have been greatly on my mind – care, compassion, communication, commitment, competence and courage may be words that have been wrapped up and presented in a new way but they are age old nursing values and it’s wonderful that they have…
Social media stories
In my blog “5 ways to get more followers … or not” a few weeks back I explored the concept of follower numbers not being an all-powerful social media measure, this week I want to explore a little about what are important measure in social media. Social media is rather like nursing in that it…